Paper Chef is Owen at Tomatillo’s version of the Iron Chef. Compulsory ingredients (drawn from ingredients suggested by other food bloggers) are posted on a certain date and you need to cook a dish, containing the chosen ingredients, during the same weekend and then post it in your blog. This is my first participation in Paper Chef and I was very happy to hear this month’s ingredients: wheat flour, cinnamon, crème fraiche and oranges. I guess that most food bloggers will go for a dessert, but I immediately came to think about Indian food which I love very much, so I thought that I would do some kind of curry. The fish curry that I made today together with Fredrik was my best made curry dish ever (and my first one containing fish) , and it was even better than many dishes that I’ve had at Indian restaurants in Sweden. I will definately make it more times as is was very delicous; creamy and spicy. Unlike the fish curry, I used a ready recipe for the Naan bread as I didn’t want to experiment with the bread.

Combine the ingredients for the marinade in a bowl, add the fish and put it in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours.

Fry the Shallot onions, garlic and the spices . Add the tomatoes and let simmer for 10 minutes. Add the Crème Fraiche and continue to simmer for 10 more minutes. Add more spices, if necessary. At this point you can put the Naan breads in the owen (see below). Add the fish and some of the hot pepper in the marinade leaving the citrus juice, simmer for 10 minutes or until the fish is done. Serve with Basmati rice and newly-baked Naan bread.

Combine flour, baking powder, salt and bicarbonate. Add egg, butter and yoghurt. Add the milk, gradually, forming a soft dough. Cover the dough with a moist kitchen towel and let it rest on warm place for 2 hours. Knead the dough until it’s smooth. Divide the dough in 8 pieces and roll out every piece to a 15 centimeter oval. Brush with water and put the moist side down on a greased baking tin. Brush the top with melted butter. Bake in the oven, rather high, for 5 minutes in 225 degrees Celsius. Brush on more butter and serve directly.

11 Responses to “Paper Chef February: Hot Fish Curry and Naan Bread”

Exciting! I didn’t even manage to catch the Paper Chef announcement this time. Oh well. And now, up to elbows in yeasty layer dough, it’s not going to be a Paper Chef entry, too :)

I’m pretty excited about my dough though! Sure, it’s risen to enormous proportions, but it’s very soft and pliable, and I’ve just done the first turn with butter. (First out of four.) We’ll see! I was going to make Wienerbrod, but I’m not really a fan. Chocolate is much more my thing, so with some luck.. Good thing other people are bringing stuff for the Forumfika too, and I have some leftover cinnamon buns. We won’t starve! :)

Anne, I hope the dough and the Wienerbrod turned out well. I’m thinking of doing Wienersemlor, even though I prefer the usual ones. But if SHF 5 says puff pastry, then it will be puff pastry :-)

Barbara, moving and packing is so boring and time demanding. We’re moving in June and I’m not looking forward moving/packing, but I’m very pleased with the new appartment and kitchen! I wish you all luck with the move and I hope you will enjoy your new home. Paper Chef and all other online events will wait for you until you have time again.

Keiko,Thank you, I think that your blog looks wonderful. The photos are brilliant.

Sam,There are a lot of “vegetarian definitions”, some more or less incorrect: Vegan, Vegetarian, Lacto Vegetarian, Ovo Vegetarian, Lacto Ovo Vegetarian, Semi Vegetarian, Demi Vegetarian etc. Some people call them selves Semi or Demi Vegetarians to clarify that they eat fish apart from the vegetables (I think even chicken in some cases). My opionion is that no kind of meat is a part of a vegetarian diet, so I often refer myself as a Lacto Ovo Vegetarian that however also eats fish. That is to say, I’m not really a vegetarian. Not as long as I eat meat (= fish in my case), but people tend to classify everything and therefore I’ve put myself in this group. If I exclude “Lacto Ovo Vegetarian” from my diet name, people think that I eat all meat and thus they serve me that.

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